Some believe that Methuselah's extreme age is the result of an ancient mistranslation that converted "months" to "years", producing a more credible 969 lunar months, or 78½ years,[19] but the same calculation applied to Enoch would have him fathering Methuselah at the age of 5[20] using numbers from the Masoretic Text. Donald V. Etz suggested that the Genesis 5 numbers "might for convenience have all been multiples of 5 or 10".[21]
Ellen Bennet argued that the Septuagint Genesis 5 numbers are in tenths of years, which "will explain how it was that they read 930 years for the age of Adam instead of 93 years, and 969 years for Methuselah instead of 96 years, and 950 years for that of Noah instead of 95 years"... "Surely it is much more rational to conclude that Noah lived 50 years instead of 500 years before he took a wife and begat Shem, Ham, and Japheth..." and then lists the Septuagint total ages with decimal points: 93.0 for Adam, 91.0 for Cainan, 96.9 for Methuselah, 95.0 for Noah, etc.[22]
end partial quote from Methuselah in Wikipedia under mistranslation
So, the people who want to believe he wasn't 969 years old when he passed away failed in trying to disprove his age.
Also, Methuselah likely lived on Atlantis with Noah of Noah's Ark. Also, Noah might have brought his animals to earth from Mars or Maldek which is now the Asteroid belt instead of from one sunken continent to another on above water here on earth. So, Methuselah couldn't have been 969 months old unless you believe his father was 5 years old when Methuselah was born.
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